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Buechner on Life as Grace

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Taking your children to school and kissing your wife goodbye. Eating lunch with a friend. Trying to do a decent day's work. Hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize […]

Berry on the Journey

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line–starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King's Highway past appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and […]

Piper on Mission and Worship

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Missions exists because worship doesn't.
John Piper

Jesus: Luther on God in the Manger

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

A great Christmas-time quote:

If you will have joy, bend yourself down to this place. There you will find that boy given for you who is your Creator lying in a manger. I will stay with that boy as he sucks, is washed, and dies…. There is no joy but in this boy. Take him away […]

Gregory on the Cost of the Kingdom

Monday, December 19th, 2005

The real value of that is beyond price, but for you the price is just what you possess. For Zacchaeus it was worth half his fortune, since he kept the other half to restore fourfold whatever he had unjustly extorted. For Peter and Andrew it was worth the value of their nets and boat; for […]

Prayer for the Season

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

I'm not sure where this came from (neither does my source — thanks, K), but I really found this as a good thing to read.  Here ya go:

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with […]

Kozo on Picking Battles

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.Jonathan Kozo

Barth on Speech and Creation

Friday, November 25th, 2005

When asked by a student whether he really believed a snake spoke to Eve in the Garden, Barth replied, "The important thing is not whether or not a snake could talk; the important thing is what he said."

Peanuts on Theology

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Thanks to the Weary Pilgrim and Waving or Drowning for the picture.

His Plan for His Money That I Watch

Friday, November 18th, 2005

No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and likewise a society with many sores will twitch when someone has the courage to touch one and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that.”
Oscar Romero

I know our society has many spots that are automatically off-limits for Jesus or his […]

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